Letters to the Editor
ShawnWM
Published Letters: 1029 Editor's Choice: 4
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PS - The lesson for the Clintons: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A lot of center lefties have found this out, but for the Clinton's it's particularly tragic.
As one who survived the Reagan-Bush recessions I can't tell you how glad I was to have Bill Clinton come in and the economy and sane policies he brought were the best ever. Bar none. Not just for me, but for everyone. for the poor of whom 17 million poor blacks alone climbed out of poverty. For the wealthy who saw their investment returns more than offset the modicum of tax increases that Bill made them pay and for which they never forgave or forgot.
There is something Christ like about Hillary's persecurtion indeed.
As southern Democrats it would have been so very much easier for them to go with the trend of the south and have an unbothered successful career as Republicans instead of being persecuted as successful Democrats. But their commitment to equity just wouldn't let them do that and they took the right on and BOY did they suffer for it. The big money of the right was merciless as never before.
Now they get to take that on AND the fringe left. I believe who hate them also because they aren't the same old liberal losers.
Regardless, right or left, those who benefited most from the Clinton admin are the nastiest and most hateful.
As they say: no good deed goes unpunished.
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@Christopher1998
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I think Obama is a great candidate with vision and ability to accomplish what he sets out to do: I can't imagine anyone in politics today, or in the past twenty years, I've been more excited about voting for.
Yeah, after all, those two bills he pioneered made such a difference to his constituents in Chicago. I can barely contain my enthusiasm for the change he'd bring IF he got elected.
Whereas Hillary, well we know that's from an adminisration that brought GOOD CHANGE to all of us.
But let's persecute her!
After all, no good deed goes unpunished.
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@Jscksmith
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. :-)
Yep. It just amazes me how stupid the left is over and over. Let's see the ONLY people they haven't creamed in over 30 years is named Clinton but you betcha, they'd rather face her than some inexperienced schister ladden with an entire HOST of NEW political baggage.
After all the Republican Right is just famous for it's truthtelling, integrity and unwillingness to play dirty political tricks which they try to cover with transparent reverse psychology.
Good God, lefties, wake up and smell the coffee already. Just once before it's too late.
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UncleFester aka Tom Payne aka Manos aka Villemar, etc etc.
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There were two one-off economic events that provided a nice tailwind to the economy during the 1990's: the peace dividend from the end of the cold war and the internet technology boom/bubble, underwritten with easy money from Alan Greenspan and the Fed. Now those winds have died out
Actually the peace divident was therefor Poppy Bush but somehow he couldn't bring on the Clinton economy.
And they were certainly there PLUS a record surpluse for Bush 2, but he managed to trash it in less than 2 years and bring th enation to recession.
The internet "bubble" ,probaby the most overplayed piece of trap from the GOP, is largely b.s. The internet is alive and well and has expanded 100 fold since 2000.
What DID change was tech venture capital flooded out of the country with Bush coming in: largely with the loss of the young, tech-friendly and savvy Clinton-Gore Administration and their cabient (Robert Rubin, Larry Sommers, etc) and their replacment with has-been industry fossils like Paul O'Neal.
Not that I expect any of these hard truths to deter you from your relentless determination to take the Democratic party down this fall, mind you.
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Axelman
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, Axelman is Obama's old lobbyist friend from the nuclear industry, no? So I guess Obama's learned well to say one thing and do another.
making just a minor change or two to ensure that he won't piss off mortgage lenders.
As in.
Paul Krugman took a look at both plans and like's Hillary's. I do, too. Much better than generalities and high-flying speeches...
Anyone with a brain should listen when Krugman talks. He hasn't been wrong yet. AS for speeches, that's not even what turns me off Obama. What turns me off is his record of lining his own pockets while doing much of nada for his constituents.
And so far he's done nothing at all this campaign to convince me of anything different.
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@Baloo!
[Read the article: Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah, Baloo, it's logic like yours which right up there wth movon.org's long success of getting Dem candidates elected that make me just want to rush right out there with you ...off the cliff. NOT
Um, since there's well under a 200 deficit between the two candidates IF you don't count Michigan and Florida the latter where Obama "accidentally" advertised nationally for two full weeks and lost anyway....
And since Obama has yet to win a major electorate state besides Illinois.. and since he carries an entire barnload of baggage that is all fresh and new ranging from WRight and The damning of America to Resko to Excelon, a less than 15% show in the Senate, etc,
perhaps it's Obama that should "go away for the good of the party"... hmmm?
Oh, wait. Looking at it that way you don't want the primary to end after all.